Officials in Montana Are Weighing Plans to Allow the Hulking Beasts to Roam Farther

After years of struggles to confine the country's largest public herd of wild bison within Yellowstone National Park, officials in Montana are weighing plans to allow the hulking beasts to roam farther into their state.

Montana officials on Tuesday are set to consider plans to drastically increase the amount of land outside the park where bison would be permitted, the latest in a long history of sometimes contentious measures to...